The road/ Cormac McCarthy
Critique of environmental negligence
The novel is authorized by a well known environmentalist named McCarthy who shows how a father and a son managed to stand a disaster. A dying father is able to protect his son in times of starvation and constant attacks and threats. McCarthy together with other environmentalists are perceived as people who can save the neglected earth. It is true from the book that the ecosystem makes people independent. People cannot survive without the biosphere as part of the ecosystem and thus people in the modern world should protect the environment just like McCarthy advocates for its protection (Mccarthy 124).
The son and the father are on a journey which involves many obstacles which they are unable to overcome. For example their travel through a lonely wilderness clearly shows that the wilderness is full of American evil. The wilderness is seen to be terrifying since many cannibals live there who cause harm to the harmless environment. The environment is supposed to be protected by the people under the influence of political and social factors where both the government and society are involved (Mccarthy 124). The people in this wilderness have neglected the land which should be instead cultivated for benefits of crop production. There exist a good relationship between the natural environment and human beings where humans should take good care of the environment since they are the beneficiaries. The Road is a useful critique on nature and the surrounding clearly pointing out that threatening the environment results to negative consequences for example experienced by the boy and his father (Mccarthy 124).
Many people suffer as a result of a natural disaster. The father and son in this novel are seen to struggle hard in order to survive in the harsh surrounding of American environment. It is true that even to date the suffering is worse since many deaths are caused by negligence of the environment. Many disasters are attributed to the devastating environment where man is responsible for degrading it. The man and the young son are examples of how human beings struggle hard to survive in the harsh environment which was originally suitable but has been later degraded. The consequences of the forefathers are seen to cause harm to the lives of the young generation just like it is shown in The Road. The son and his father struggle in order to get food, shelter and clothing for them to stand the cruel environment. For example during winter the father advices his son that they should move to look for suitable environments and food (Mccarthy 122). The son is born in a time when a catastrophe has taken place and thus does not enjoy a suitable environment rather than the cruel one which is degraded by individuals.
Disasters and especially human caused disasters results to deaths. For example the boy’s mother commits suicide after the disaster since she suffers a lot during the disaster period. The mother could not stand living in a degraded environment full of sufferings and climate degradation. Today’s world is even worse since many people die as a result of environment negligence which leads to disasters such as floods and starvation. The son and his father admires good climate and thus travel to the coast only to find that due to environmental degradation, the climate is much worse and unsuitable. From the modern world it is true to say that environmental negligence results to changes in climate thus causing global warming resulting to floods and other catastrophes (Mccarthy 122). The environment should not be degraded and thus upcoming groups and organizations are against environmental degradation as it causes human made disasters which results to deaths and other calamities just like shown by McCarthy.
Works Cited
Mccarthy, C. The road. London, Picador. 2010. Print.
